Jessica Drennen (She/Her), LCSW

Jessica Drennen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in North Carolina with 14 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who struggle with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, anger, and related life challenges. She speaks English and works with adults on practical issues that interfere with daily life.

Jessica takes a straightforward, person-focused approach. Sessions concentrate on real problems and concrete skills. She draws on client-centered methods to listen and reflect, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking, and DBT strategies for emotion regulation and distress tolerance.

Her work often addresses relationships and the ways people relate to themselves. She helps clients look at communication problems, codependency, control issues, and intimacy-related stresses. She also supports people coping with grief, parenting strain, career stress, and the effects of trauma or substance use.

Practical tools are a regular part of sessions. Jessica may use mindfulness exercises to ground a client, CBT tools to shift patterns of thinking, and motivational interviewing to support change around addiction or behavior. The focus is on small, testable steps clients can try between meetings.

Jessica is willing to talk about difficult topics directly, including identity, power dynamics, and social pressures. She encourages honesty and clear goals, and she works collaboratively with clients to find sustainable ways to reduce anger, manage stress, and rebuild relationships.

How her approaches translate to online sessions